One of the features I liked with the newest Homey Pro was an option for local backup.
But seriously:
You’ll have to take your Homey offline(!), turn it upside down, use one hand with the Homey and a paper clip and your other hand hand connecting USB to the computer(!) like a gymnast, using a ladder in my case. Sleek, especially since you have your Homey with the ethernet interface in such a convenient place… NOT.
Then… backup seems to take forever, so I select properties on the backup file to see when it was created. Result: Backup failure – cannot write to file after some 300 mb written. File deleted by Homey within seconds.
“Here I go again on my own
Going down the only road I’ve ever known”
Finally, after 47 minutes(!!!) for transferring 974 mb via USB-C I have a backup. That’s 20 mb/min, or 0.3 mb/s written. Amazingly incredidible slow, I didn’t know anything could be this slow in 2023/24!
How on earth could the local backup feature get implemented so so terrible?
It’s like you’re mocking us for not paying for the daily backup (which I do not need)
Thanks for your time! And I hope you can improve the backup ehmm… “feature”
They advertise it as “Local Backup”
But it is in reality a Firmware Recovery Procedure.
Perfect for that, for a Jailbreak and for a Hardware Mod as CM4 replacement.
And indeed verry Picky in the quality of the cable and USB Port (fe Power etc. )
But imho only the Homey Cloud Backup is a real Backup. Offline is not meant for a backup but for DR/Firmware/Flash recovery.
Issue somewhat resolved. I used an UNC-path for my backup, indeed it seems to work, but extremely slowly. And, it actually doesn’t work somehow. I chcked the size of the backup file in order to calculate the speed, but today when I checked the file size was zero bytes, and I also had previous 0 bytes backups.
At the end (after big-button-with-DONE-in-it) there was a file dialogoue, but since I was standing on a ladder I thought I accidently clicked something and select cancel. The probably the file was wiped. Thank you very much for that backup
Today, I stored the backup in c:\
It was much much much speedier and was done in perhaps 10 minutes.
To rule out WIFI I then copied the file from C:\ to my Synology NAS. It was done in under 25 seconds, so something like about 38 mb/s.
Conclusion: do not use an UNC path when performing a backup.
I’m new to Homey, I just have got a Homey Pro. But I have been using HA for many years and obviously it is highly configurable.
One issue I have noticed.
I pay for space with various cloud providers, Google being a big one. Why can’t I use it?
Why can’t I backup to SMB (which could then go to cloud if I wanted).
I thought the whole point was offline/ local?
Why does that not include backups, a crucial part of maintenance?
I’m certainly not doing this every other day :C
You’ll have to take your Homey offline(!), turn it upside down, use one hand with the Homey and a paper clip and your other hand hand connecting USB to the computer(!)
Any news on when we might see local backups? I don’t know if I can move over to Homey Pro and away from Home Assistant without that (though there are more features I need to look into).
But it could be better for certain things, one of which is Backups, that I want to manage myself, or at least choose the destination.
I can’t understand why there’s not a AWS S3 or SMB ‘app’ that allows people to have backups where they want. They can still be encrypted and full OS/ firmware.
I thought that the problem was Athom wouldn’t do it because people might be able to reverse engineer the firmware/ system, but if we can have local backups anyway, then makes no sense to not have those sent to a NAS, rather than have to plug Homey directly into a computer.
The offline backups are available as a selling point, but in reality they are such a PITA to use that you might think it’s intentional (as not to cut into the paid cloud backup offering).
